Stories of The Great War

The American “I Want You” poster featuring Uncle Sam was, as its creator James Montgomery Flagg pointed out, one of the most well known po...

The Battle of Verdun was fought on the eastern front in France from February until December in 1916. About 300,000 soldiers died here.

On Christmas Eve in 1914 the entrenched soldiers all along the Western Front laid down their arms in a gesture of peace. The truce lasted ...

The M1903 Springfield Rifle was the main infantry rifle for the United States in WWI. The rifle was developed by the Springfield Armory in ...

It can be said that no great book about WWI was published during the war. The most famous were published postwar. Some of these were All Qu...

Cheering soldiers after hearing cease fire On the 11 hour of November 11, 1918 World War One ended. All nations had agreed to stop ...

World War One was the first war that could be photographed while it occurred. The American Civil War could not be photographed in th...

Art came in several forms during WWI. There was painted art and there was 3D art. Propaganda posters were all painted or drawn and so wer...

Cher Ami while alive Carrier pigeons served as a speedy way of delivering urgent messages in WWI. They were hard to shoot down due ...

Jack Sullivan, Butetown History & Arts Centre After the war poets needed something to write about. Many of them...

Music During WWI During the early days of the war music was used for recruiting young men. These tunes were uplifting and encouraged men...

I read an article in the Autumn 2013 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Military History (MHQ) on WWI airplanes and air combat during that t...

Propaganda was used by all nations in the First World War. This post will address visual propaganda, usually seen on posters. Countries ...

The MKV Fuller Phone When I was on vacation earlier this summer I saw one of these in the Yellow Barn Museum in the Shenandoah Valley a...

The Boy Scouts of America played numerous roles to aid our country during the First World War. Radio transmitters were regulated durin...

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in England in 1888. As he got older he became interested in military history. He joined the British army...

Every country has a national anthem. The words to these anthems vary depending on the country’s views and beliefs. The song’s melody coul...

German Stormtroopers were elite infantry units used by the Germans from 1917-1918. Their symbol was two crossed German grenades above wh...

Kaiser Wilhelm lead Germany in the First World War. In 1918 after their surrender the German people were not doing well. Increasing politic...

The book I have recently read, Stalin - Russia's Man of Steel , by Albert Marrin, was a biography on the historical character Joseph St...